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Is Adobe's Flash Player available by default on Windows Phone 8? The phone in question is Nokia Lumia 720.

Christian Cawley
2013-07-02 18:14:02
Unfortunately there is no native way to playback Flash videos on Windows Phone, and there is no way to enjoy Flash games.I've been using Windows Phone since 2010 and hoped that with Windows Phone 8's release in 2012 that there may be a refreshed approach to Flash, but it seems that Microsoft just isn't interested.Note that there are Flash video download apps such as Flash Cinema (http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/flash-cinema/be82820d-a350-46fd-98b2-7653711abef5) and there are several YouTube apps.It is worth noting that although Adobe has effectively killed Flash player on Android, Microsoft was keen to have Flash player on Windows 8. Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 are very closely related so it wouldn't be a complete surprise to see Flash on Windows Phone 8 - the problem is, there doesn't seem to be much demand for it. Some more detail here: http://wmpoweruser.com/will-adobe-bring-flash-to-windows-phone-8-devices/
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Jan Fritsch
2013-05-25 17:36:14
Adobe has stopped developing Flash Player for mobile devices and there is no official release for Windows Phone.
DrSunil Vaswani
2013-05-28 09:18:57
Is there a work around to install flash player for Windows Phone 8?
ha14
2013-05-25 08:48:29
Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.htmlOur future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook.
ha14
2013-06-06 15:00:06
i dont know if it exist something to download from somewhere, even you find something perhaps will not work on the windows mobile 8 phone, because it is not updated for this platform